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January 6, 2020
Click through on the image for all the details! Wrap-Up I finished Minor Mage and took an X-Men detour. Total pages read? 569! That’s about normal for Bout of Books. I missed the chats… Next time! But a fun week of reading nonetheless. Updates & Challenges Sunday, Jan. 12th 2020 Reading: Duchess of Bloomsbury Street …
Published on January 06, 2020 08:48
Click through on the image for all the details! Wrap-Up I finished Minor Mage and took an X-Men detour. Total pages read? 569! That’s about normal for Bout of Books. I missed the chats… Next time! But a fun week of reading nonetheless. Updates & Challenges Sunday, Jan. 12th 2020 Reading: Duchess of Bloomsbury Street …
Published on January 06, 2020 08:48
Click through on the image for all the details! Updates & Challenges Sunday, Jan. 12th 2020 Reading: Saturday, Jan. 11th 2020 Reading: Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff, pgs. 100-109 “Light And Space” by Ned Beauman X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, pgs. 1-127 Friday, Jan. 10th 2020 Reading: Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene …
Published on January 06, 2020 08:48
Click through on the image for all the details! Updates & Challenges Friday, Jan. 10th 2020 Reading: Challenge: The One With the Books in It My favorite book with books is 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, a memoir in correspondence. (Actually, all of Hanff's books are great and very "bookish.") https://t.co/UjeSznOfMh #BoutOfBooks — …
Published on January 06, 2020 08:48
Click through on the image for all the details! Updates & Challenges Thursday, Jan. 9th 2020 Reading: Wednesday, Jan. 8th 2020 Reading: Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff, pgs. 72-79 Trail of Lightning by by Rebecca Roanhorse, pgs. 2-20 Dive Deeper by George Cotkin, pgs. 171-173 Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, pgs. 449-451 Challenge: Bookish …
Published on January 06, 2020 08:48
January 5, 2020
Sunday Salon, 1/5/20
Books I finished 2019 with 84, Charing Cross Road and some Edgar Allan Poe. According to Goodreads, if I reread 84, Charing Cross Road, it’s in December. It’s another thing (like jazz music) that I associate with winter and with relaxing (in the midst of finals (when in college) or general holiday nuttiness). My Poe …
Published on January 05, 2020 11:31
January 4, 2020
Deal Me In, Week 1 ~ “What Tune the Enchantress Plays”
Hosted by Jay @ Bibliophilopolis What’s Deal Me In? “What Tune the Enchantress Plays” by Peter S. Beagle Card picked: 5♥ Found in: Sleight of Hand, Tachyon Publications, 2011 Ah, there you are. I was beginning to wonder. No, no. Come in, do—it’s your lair, after all. Tidy, too, for a demon. I’d do something …
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Published on January 04, 2020 13:28
January 2, 2020
December 31, 2019
Favorites of 2019
Top 3 Books Two nonfiction and a classic that I never read until just this year… Poe: A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd – I embarked on reading the complete works of Poe this year. I’m still working on it. But I also wanted a good agnostic biography—one that wasn’t too caught up in …
Published on December 31, 2019 16:00